[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1059921: intake: autopkgtest failure with Python 3.12

[Graham Inggs]

Source: intake
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: serious
User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
Usertags: python3.12

Hi Maintainer

intake's autopkgtests fail with Python 3.12 [1].  I've copied what I
hope is the relevant part of the log below.

Regards
Graham


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/i/intake/testing/amd64/


77s ==================================== ERRORS
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77s ________________________ ERROR collecting test session
_________________________
77s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/_pytest/config/__init__.py:641: in
_importconftest
77s mod = import_path(conftestpath, mode=importmode, root=rootpath)
77s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/_pytest/pathlib.py:567: in import_path
77s importlib.import_module(module_name)
77s /usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py:90: in import_module
77s return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
77s <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1387: in _gcd_import
77s ???
77s <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1360: in _find_and_load
77s ???
77s <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1331: in _find_and_load_unlocked
77s ???
77s <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:935: in _load_unlocked
77s ???
77s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py:186:
in exec_module
77s exec(co, module.__dict__)
77s intake/conftest.py:18: in <module>
77s from intake.container import persist
77s intake/container/__init__.py:8: in <module>
77s from .dataframe import RemoteDataFrame
77s intake/container/dataframe.py:7: in <module>
77s from distutils.version import LooseVersion
77s E ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
77s =========================== short test summary info
============================
77s ERROR - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
77s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interrupted: 1 error during collection
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
77s =============================== 1 error in 0.30s
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